The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-02-18

the opinion that it would pay better to take
clover of and feed 1t to stock than to let ii
rot down on the land. He also advocated
the use of manure sprcaders TO spread the
manure evenly.
| WIN. d. Lee said much land is worn out by
frequent blowing He prefers cutting all the
rough feed and feeding it in the barn yard or
stable. The manure is thereby put in better
shape To improve poor lands we must de-
pend upon clover and commercial fertilizers,
and fine bone dust is the best. He likes to
get manure out as fast as 1t is made, and had
seen good results from the application OF
straw alone.
| John Moores said man who would under
| take at this time to make poor land rich
would be made poor himself. He did not
think poor land can be improved without
barn yard manure. He had undertaken,
twenty years ago, to enrich field remote
from his barn, without barn yard manure,
and it had cost him SLOGAN acre more than he
had gotten from it. He has always fed his
cattle in the field, on good sod He thought
manure much better if thrown into the barn
yard and allowed to remain several weeks
before being hauled out. A barn yard should
be so made that the manure can not bleach
and wash away, but it should not be
covered. sufficient quantity of rough stuff
should be thrown in to absorb all the liquids.
II will pay to SOW plaster In the barn yard and
bone dust will act better in conjunction with
barn yard manure than any other way.
Jones H. Janney said if man has land
that is naturally poor lie had better run
away and leave It, If it is naturally good
but worn out and too poor 10 bring clover
he would plant buckwheat, turn it under for
wheat, frrtilizing heavily with phosphate.
He would thereby expect to get a good set
nfflp H. mo Iii bo6
and let the second crop stand. After the first
year he would lime heavily and would then,
he thought, be prepared to raise q good crop
of corn. Bone dust will not improved field
in the absence of vegetable matter. The
benefit of clover is that its roots go deeply
into the subsoil and bring up mineral matters
essential to produce crops.
Mr.. Moores did not believe in the subsoil
wortha cent.
Mr.. Janney was of the opinion that not
much benefit is derived from feeding cattle
in the field.
VIM. NJ Edelin's plan would be to SOW
cow peas instead of buckwheat, one bushel
to the acre, with 300 TO 400 pounds of good
fertilizer, pillow the peas down for wheat
seed the land TO clover. Lime the clover the
following year and pillow again for wheat
He would again apply commercial fertilizers
and seed the land in grass. BY that time he
would expect TO have it improved. There is
no fertilizer like barn yard manure. He pre-
feIs TO have the manure thrown out of the
stable into the barn yard and allow il to re-
main three or four days, until fermentation
begins, before hauling it out. If it remains
too long in the yard tits liable to fire-fang and
become worthless. He does not object to
hauling il on frozen ground but would not
put it on ice or snow, where one-half or more
might be lost, if the snow is taken off by
rain.
r. John Rogers, the President, agreed
with Mr.. Edelin's views about starting to
improve poor land. The ACCESSIBILITY of feed
ing in the field depends upon the size of the
farm. On large farm it is often inconve-
nent to haul manure 10 remote fields and it
would therefore he better TO feed on such
fields. Besides if n great deal ofstock is kept |
it is not always best to have them in the barn
yard. On small farm, however, the best |
plan is 10 feed in the barn yard. More bene-
fit is derived from the manure if cattle are |
fed in the barn yard than from feeding in the
field.
The next meeting of the club will take |
place at the farm of Mr.. r. John Rogers,
March 9Th. The question selected for dis |
cussion is: What is the most profitable |
method of disposing of farm products"